Top 100 Itself In Quotes
#1. Then the necessary decline of non-voluntary learning and rise of the self-assured will which perfects itself in the glorious sunlight of the free person may be somewhat expressed as follows: knowledge must die and rise again as will and create itself anew each day as a free person.
Max Stirner
#2. As with all great works of literature, 'Of Mice and Men' moves with the inexorability of a huge river, and it pours itself, exhausts itself, in the sea of our unconscious. Having read it, we carry the book inside us forever.
Jay Parini
#3. The castle grounds were gleaming in the sunlight as though freshly painted; the cloudless sky smiled at itself in the smoothly sparkling lake, the satin-green lawns rippled occasionally in a gentle breeze: June had arrived.
J.K. Rowling
#4. Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.
James Anthony Froude
#5. All day, after two days and nights of rain, water had been rising in the dykes and now it was creeping rapidly up the five stone arches of the bridge where the she stood watching the wide rainy valley up which the tongue of river finally lost itself in a gray country of winter elms.
H.E. Bates
#7. Life is perhaps that enclosed moment
when my gaze destroys itself in the pupil of your eyes
and it is in the feeling
which I will put into the Moon's impression
and the Night's perception.
Forough Farrokhzad
#8. One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.
Subhas Chandra Bose
#9. Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
Alan Hirsch
#10. New York loves itself in an unkind and fanatical way.
Mason Cooley
#11. Well, Smoke n' Mirrors has very much a world music flavor and it doesn't park itself in one country. It borrows heavily from the Brazilian angle, which is dear to my heart, and I recorded several albums with that flavor.
Lee Ritenour
#12. O, when the heart is, full, when bitter thoughts come crowding thickly up for utterance, and the poor common words of courtesy are such a very mockery, how much the bursting heart may pour itself in prayer!
Nathaniel Parker Willis
#13. DNA is a perfect example of pure potentiality; in fact, it is the material expression of pure potentiality. The same DNA existing in every cell expresses itself in different ways in order to fulfill the unique requirements of that particular cell.
Deepak Chopra
#14. Whatever I hold in my mind tends to manifest itself in my life. What we believe and assume creates most of our reality and our experience.
David Emerald Womeldorff
#15. The Universe is a unity, an interacting and genetically-related community of beings bound together in an inseparable relationship in space and time ... The human is that being in whom the Universe activates, reflects upon, and celebrates itself in conscious self-awareness.
Thomas Berry
#17. For while spirituality has the dynamic to transcend and transform culture, it invariably expresses itself in and through culture.
Kirkley C. Sands
#18. The black stream, catching on a sunken rock, Flung backward on itself in one white wave, And the white water rode the black forever. - ROBERT FROST
Kevin Fedarko
#19. Artistic talent is like a brilliant firework which streaks across a pitch-black night, inspiring awe among onlookers but extinguishing itself in seconds, leaving behind only darkness and longing.
Alain De Botton
#20. I love the idea of literature as a room or series of rooms that allow you to be present as it slowly unfolds itself in all its capacities.
Gregory Allen Howard
#21. Love is not the middle ear from which the voice resounds, but rather the voice itself; in our bodies a body of emanations.
Candice Favilla
#22. The passage of time is internal to the world, is born in the world itself in the relationship between quantum events that comprise the world and are themselves the source of time. The
Carlo Rovelli
#23. When we have nothing to cling to as our own and cease thinking of ourselves as people who must defend privileges, we can open ourselves freely to others with the faithful expectation that our strength will manifest itself in our shared weakness.
Henri Nouwen
#24. Life could have been different if the meetings which have decided its course had been less silent, superficial or routine, if more thoughts had been exchanged, if humanity had been more able to show itself in them
Theodore Zeldin
#25. The shadow disguises itself in our projections, when we react intensely to a trait in others that we fail to see in ourselves.
Connie Zweig
#26. You never know what you'll want to write until it starts writing itself in your head.
Jill Ker Conway
#27. The self-life manifests itself in self-indulgences, such as self-love, self-will, self-seeking, self-pride ... It takes self-denial to turn off the television and spend [time] in prayer ... and read the Scriptures ... the only object in life is that Christ may be honored.
Billy Graham
#28. LAWYER. Justice that destroys itself in seeking to be just! - - - Right, that so often fosters wrong!!! DAUGHTER
August Strindberg
#29. Dasein itself
and this means also its Being-in-the-world
gets its ontological understanding of itself in the first instance from those entities which it itself is not but which it encounters 'within' its world, and from the Being which they possess.
Martin Heidegger
#30. All that we see is but the reflex of a power that endures, untouched by the pain ... a transcendent anonymity regarding itself in all of the self-centered, battling egos that are born and die in time.
Joseph Campbell
#31. I would say probably not being able to do what I want to do and not being completely fulfilled and happy. I don't know how that would manifest itself in a mirror. It's just that feeling of not being satisfied with my life would be the worst thing that could ever happen to me.
Karen Gillan
#32. The US does not involve itself in what is happening in the world's largest democracy, nor does it intend to do so.
John McCain
#33. The more exaggerated the musculature, the more it had to explain and justify itself in mounds of dead bodies.
Mark Simpson
#34. Man is immortal; therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea; it can only find itself in changing forms
Rabindranath Tagore
#35. The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly; its grandeur does not exercise itself in grandeur, but in mediocrity.
Michel De Montaigne
#36. But it can happen that a phrase intended to indicate a state beyond concepts just becomes another concept in itself, in the same way that if you ask a person their name and they reply that they have no name, you will then perhaps mistakenly call them 'No name'.
Namkhai Norbu
#37. Science now finds itself in paradoxical strife with society: admired but mistrusted; offering hope for the future but creating ambiguous choice; richly supported yet unable to fulfill all its promise; boasting remarkable advances but criticized for not serving more directly the goals of society.
J. Michael Bishop
#38. I'm an artistic kind of person. I draw. I've drawn my whole life. When you have an imaginative mind, I think the artistic form manifests itself in different ways. When I was younger, I used to draw murals for people.
Vinny Guadagnino
#39. It was strange how your world could shift on its axis and everything you trusted could invert itself in what seemed like no time at all.
Cassandra Clare
#40. I try to find a compositional structure in the subject itself, in nature ... I rely on the angle where the wall meets the floor as a constant reference point, and against that I oppose the movements of the model's limbs.
Philip Pearlstein
#41. In another sense he is "being itself," in that he is the inexhaustible source of all reality, the absolute upon which the contingent is always utterly dependent, the unity and simplicity that underlies and sustains the diversity of finite and composite things.
David Bentley Hart
#42. Information ... exhausts itself in the staging of meaning ... [and leads] not at all to a surfeit of innovation but to the very contrary, to total entropy
Jean Baudrillard
#43. The real juice of life, whether it be sweet or bitter, is to be found not nearly so much in the products of our efforts as in the process of living itself, in how it feels to be alive.
George Leonard
#44. Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows to plunge itself in some boundless ocean, where restricted natures only find monotony, but where great souls are engulfed in endless contemplation.
Honore De Balzac
#45. But plausibility itself, in my view, is a tremendous step forward as we continue to marshal the courage to live meaningful lives in a universe that likely came into existence, and may fade out of existence, without purpose, and certainly without us at its center.
Lawrence M. Krauss
#46. Intensely moving but never sentimental, Academy Street is a profound meditation on what Faulkner called 'the human heart in conflict with itself'. In Tess Lohan, Mary Costello has created one of the most fully realized characters in contemporary fiction. What a marvel of a book.
Ron Rash
#47. Throughout the history of art it has been art itself - in all its forms - that has inspired art ... today's photographs are so geared to life that one can learn more from them than from life itself.
Van Deren Coke
#48. The distinction between the old and the new formulations consisting in the incorporation of the concept of the rate of chemical reactions is so great that it immediately asserted itself in the objective development of catalysis.
Wilhelm, Ostwald
#49. I got down there about nine, under a hard high October moon that lost itself in the top layers of a beach fog.
Raymond Chandler
#50. A secret needs two faces to bounce between; a secret needs to see itself in another pair of eyes.
Stephen King
#52. The psyche is a self-regulating system that maintains itself in equilibrium as the body does.
C. G. Jung
#53. Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
Wallace Stevens
#54. The Party, as such, stands for positive Christianity, but does not bind itself in the matter of creed to any particular confession.
Adolf Hitler
#55. The court's injected itself in the definition of marriage, deciding whether or not human life is worth protecting, permitting government to transfer private property from one person to another, even interpreting the Constitution on the basis of foreign and international laws.
Sam Brownback
#56. Floyd made it a rule never to worry about events over which he could have absolutely no control; any external threat would reveal itself in due time and must be dealt with then. But he could not help wondering if they had done
Arthur C. Clarke
#57. An event may be small and insignificant in its origin , and yet, when drawn close to one's eye, it may open in its center an infinite and radiant perspective because a higher order of being is trying to express itself in it and irradiates it violently.
Bruno Schulz
#58. Tyranny seldom announces itself ... In fact, a tyranny may exist without an individual tyrant. A whole government, even a democratically elected one, may be tyrannical.
Joseph Sobran
#59. Some place existed before the universe, exists outside of it now, and will exist when the universe collapses back upon itself. In that mysterious place, outside of time, Stormy waits for me.
Dean Koontz
#60. To be yourself requires extraordinary intelligence. You are blessed with that intelligence; nobody need give it to you; nobody can take it away from you. He who lets that express itself in its own way is a "Natural Man".
U.G. Krishnamurti
#61. I know so many people who are eaten up by regret. It manifests itself in so many ways. They either become mentally a bit off, or they get very fat, or they are just horribly depressed.
Tippi Hedren
#62. Once you understand what excellence is all about ... you see how that excellence manifests itself in any discipline.
Joe Rogan
#63. Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
Honore De Balzac
#64. O, if so much beauty doth reveal
Itself in every vein of life and nature,
How beautiful must be the Source itself,
The Ever Bright One.
Esaias Tegner
#65. Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.
Francis Bacon
#66. Eternity manifests itself in endless ways on endless planes of existence that they call lokas, other dimensions ... worlds within worlds.
Frederick Lenz
#67. True baptism allows us to reframe, and contain, the reality of evil, without needing to blame anyone else, without any need for shame or vengeance. We are all in this together, and our common wound shows itself in different ways.
Richard Rohr
#68. We see how mankind, without well thinking what they are doing, pursue, with impetuous and ardent affections, the transitory things of this world; but, in thus catching at the empty shadow of a happy life, they lose true happiness itself. In
John Calvin
#69. was too young to know if my heart misbehaved itself in any way,
Christy Brown
#70. Until men desire to control their own passions, evil has rooted itself in their hearts and darkness will rise again.
Jaime Buckley
#72. When you get new rules that work, you're changing the physiology of your brain. And then your brain has to reconfigure itself in order to deal with it.
Aphex Twin
#73. History sometimes reproduces, at a distance of many years, the same combinations of circumstances that generate great achievements. But nothing ever repeats itself in exactly the same way.
Valerio Massimo Manfredi
#74. Purpose, or mission, is determined by the development of values, balance, ethics, humor, morality, and sensitivities. It manifests itself in the way we look at life.
Luci Swindoll
#75. Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear.
Thomas Lynch
#76. My favorite English teacher in high school showed me 'Brazil' when I was 15, and it blew my mind. It's one of those movies that's revealed itself in different ways as I've gone back to it over the years.
Win Butler
#77. It is not the part of divinity to go to humanity and to modify itself in any shape, manner or form; rather it is up to humanity to make itself available to divinity.
Frederick Lenz
#78. That energy which veils itself in mildness is most effective of its object.
Magha
#79. Prose fills a space, like a liquid poured in from the top, but poetry occupies it, arrays itself in formation, sets up camp and refuses to budge.
Simon Armitage
#80. A half roll of Life Savers fused to the pockets,
And in yet another, a lone unwrapped mint
Had bundled itself in a stole of gray lint.
David Rakoff
#81. Zen insight is not our awareness, but Being's awareness of itself in us.
Thomas Merton
#82. Life requires no future to complete itself nor explanation to justify itself. In this moment it is finished.
Alan W. Watts
#83. Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.
Margaret Mead
#84. I don't know what the secret to longevity as an actress is. It's more than talent and beauty. Maybe it's the audience seeing itself in you.
Joan Blondell
#85. Something inexorable seeds itself in the place of your origin. You can never escape the bonds of family history, no matter how far you travel.
Christina Baker Kline
#86. Virtue is not a mushroom, that springeth up of itself in one night when we are asleep, or regard it not; but a delicate plant, that groweth slowly and tenderly, needing much pains to cultivate it, much care to guard it, much time to mature it, in our untoward soil, in this world's unkindly weather.
Isaac Barrow
#87. But if there is such a thing as social commitment in literature, I think it must manifest itself in a reader's awareness of the human condition, in the writer's touching some common nerve ending. I think this kind of social commitment, like a lady's slip, should be there but it must not show.
Bel Kaufman
#88. The human quest for justice is an expression of the moral content of the fundamental laws of physics, which reveals itself in the search for a supreme law and a supreme lawmaker.
Joseph B.H. McMillan
#89. Nothing divine dies. All good is eternally reproductive. The beauty of nature reforms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation, but for new creation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#90. Oh how can we, scarce mastering our passions, expect that youth should keep itself in check?
Friedrich Schiller
#91. When the kite was finished, it refused to fly and kept slamming into the ground as if it wanted to destroy itself, and finally it threw itself in the march. Sophia put it outside Grandmother's door and went away.
Tove Jansson
#92. There's so much going on in the world. There's so much information being thrown at us - so many things are being sold to us, and we're being told how we should appear and how to be more successful, blah, blah, blah. How does that manifest itself? In the pressures, the stress, this need to escape.
Michael Fassbender
#93. You might think that religion was the one area in which professional jealousy would take a back seat. But no: ecclesiastical memoirs are as viperish as any, though their envy tends to cloak itself in piety.
Craig Brown
#94. Then it suddenly and theatrically began to clean itself in the way cats do when they want you to know what a big deal you aren't.
Adam Rex
#95. The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.
Franz Kafka
#96. Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion, given the historical record.
John Shelton Reed
#97. The role of the painter ... is to project that which sees itself in him.
Max Ernst
#98. We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time it makes a decision.
Byron White
#99. The attitude of the people proves that not only do we want to, but that we can succeed in pulling our country out of the difficult position it finds itself in. The banking system of our country will survive and grow.
Nicos Anastasiades
#100. Nature asserts itself in the face of Spirit which it denies while assuming it; the individual is again found in the collectivity within which he is lost; & each man's death is fulfilled by being cancelled out into the Life of Mankind.
Simone De Beauvoir
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